The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-12-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Topics of the Times Given in Terss and
Spicy Manner.

Ashtabula county, Ohio, tallies COG divorces
in twenty years. = i"'
Fostoria entertains the Northwestern Ohio
pedagogues this week.
Rolling mills at South Lyons, Mich, \
burned. Loss, S2e, 900; insurance, $4,000
Billey Sowders, Of st. Paul, has regularly
igned to pitch for Boston base ball club next
yeaI,
John Teemer has deposited $500 as, a forfeit
for, a rowing match with any one in the
world
Schooner Mary P. Collins, Of Philadel-
phia, foUndered at sea and six sailors were
drowned
Rev. Lyman Abbott has been engaged as
stated supply of Plymouth church for an in
definite period.
Hugh Maxwell, murderer Of O. Arthur
Preller at st. Louis, took his first communion
in Jail Sunday.
SiIas Cain was killed by q shot from James
Brents gun in quarrel at Louisville last
Monday night.
Smith and Kilrain will box a weeks en-
gagement at the Royal Aquarium, London,
In February for Ell 600
The 1000 logs composing the great 'cigar"
raft from Nova Scotia are now drifting over
1000 square miles Of sea.
AT Newark, O., two B. & O. trains met
by chance the usual way, and seriously hurt
IrainInen Ayres, Branigan and Traxter.
The Chicago Times has just been sold for
s575, 900 cash and $500, 900 assumed debts 1t
will be made Republican Blaine organ
Peru will take immediate steps to get her
railroads out Of the hands Of the contractors,
the two (scapel Graces, of New York city.
In Montgomery county, Ohio, 900 soldiers
families require relief. The Soldiers home
4aws this unusual number to that locality.
Vanderbilt is reported to have purchased
the estate of the Earl Of Bucbinghamshire,
England. The title does not go with the pos
session.
George Corners and Dan Flynn fought
sixteen savage rounds at Boston for 81 900
Monday. Flynn will probably die from his
beating.
Evansville Democratic papers have
whacksd into the fire department 50 vigor-
ously that insurance companies have raised
their rates
Miss Louise Summer presents Akron. o..
lGO acres of land and $4,000 for home for
the aged Christmas gift in the name Of
her father
T. P. Brooks, of Iowa, broke one of Billy
Nolan's ribs and knocked him out In two
rounds at Kansas City Christmas in fight
| for 800 side ,...
Twenty-seven Lexington horses won 24s
races in 1887 and won S283, ,772. Seventy-tEo
horses averaged over 5000 each on the
| American turf.
| DR.. Mckinze reports that Grown Prince
Fritz's condition has greatly improved and
that time alone can determine the exact
nature of his disease
Paul Kraas, whose testimony caused the
arrest of Greenwood as the murderer of
| Lyman A., Weeks, has escaped from Ray
mOnd st5eat Jail, Brooklyn, -"
An erasof prosperity has dawned on More
head, KY, since the death Of the parties TO
the Craig Tolliver feud. But it took twenty
murders tobring it around
German army is permeated with Socialism
and the soldiers are filed with discomfort at
the proposed extension of the liability 10 SER
vice in the Landsturm to the age Of forty
| five.
| Jessie Jones, aged seventeen, colored
under arrest at Chicago, confesses to the
murder OF William Tobin, at Archer and
| AASS0A AFtAi DCtChAOCE LO no ClALLl5 SbiT-
| defense
| There is unpleasantness in the choir Of an
Indianapolis colored church, and J. M.
Walker has bullet in his neck because he
admired the wife Of the leader, John Hud-
dleson, too fervently.
At Portsmouth, o., Henry Vulgamore sold
his fathers corn and went on 800 spree
| City Marshal Comens shut him under an in
inverted mortar box in an alley, and is now
accused Of taking his money
A desperate battle was fought in the noun
tains near Guatemala, Central America, be-
tween the Federal and revolutionary force
under Vmcente Castano In two hours the
revolutionists were annihilated Castano
fed and other rebel leaders were captured
and shot.
At Cynthiana, KY. Supreme Court Judge
Ward secured exemption for a large amount
of taxable property; the auditor refused to
recognize it and levied upon the judges mule:
circuit court indorsed the auditor. The
judge has taken an appeal and will sit in
judgment on his own case.